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Title:Migrant labour and the Nquthu district of Zululand, 1879-1910
Author:Unterhalter, E.ISNI
Book title:Southern African research in progress: papers given at a conference of the Centre for Southern African studies, University of York
Year:1979
Pages:165-181
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subject:labour migration
Abstract:An examination of different periods in the history of this migration illustrates that the South African working class did nog just emerge. It was forced into existence as a result of devastating wars in the countryside. It was these wars of imperial conquest and not a natural disaster like rinderpest, that formed the proletariat. Graph., notes, ref., tab.